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C.S. Lewis Key Dates

Adapted from Chronology posted on the C.S. Lewis Foundation website and Lewis' biography in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

1941 - The Screwtape Letters are published in weekly installments in The Guardian, a religious newspaper that ceased publication in 1951; it had no connection with the Manchester Guardian newspaper.) Lewis begins giving radio addresses on the BBC, known as "Right and Wrong."

1943 - Lewis delivered the Riddell
Memorial Lectures (Fifteenth Series), a series of three lectures
subsequently published as The Abolition of Man. Lewis criticizes trends in modern education.

1944 - Lewis continues giving talks on the BBC. Taken together, all of Lewis' BBC radio broadcast talks
were eventually published under the title Mere Christianity.
The Great Divorce is
published in weekly installments in The Guardian.

1946 - Lewis is passed over for the M Chair at Oxford, because of "too pronounced" Evangelical tendencies

1950-1956 - Chronicles of Narnia are published. Lewis' correspondence with writer Joy Gresham of New York begins. She will eventually leave her abusive husband and join Lewis in England.

1960 - Lewis crosses the English Channel for the first time since 1918, on a journey to Greece with Joy, whose cancer was then in remission. The Four Loves is published.

1961 - An Experiment in Criticism is published. A Grief Observed, published pseudonymously, about his grief at the death of Joy.